Oh , did I mention that it is also apparently the most expensive Taiwanese movie of all time ? This looks and sound like all sort of fury . Update : Now with the first trailer !
The trailer emphasizing its rarified scale and the weirdness of Matt Damon being the star of this movie , surrounded by Chinese actors and in a thoroughly unstinting Formosan stage setting .
In fact , carry through for Damon and a handful of abbreviated shots of Pedro Pascal ’s character , the form is overwhelmingly Asian , and yet the trailer make it light that Damon is the principal star , despite the Chinese endowment regard . It ’s quite an unfortunate look given therecentconversationsabout Asiatic roles in Hollywood filmmaking .
Original article : These Modern images come viaEntertainment Weekly . Due out in February of 2017 , The Great Wall is directed by House of Flying Daggers and Hero ’s Zhang Yimou , and boasts an impressive mixture of Taiwanese and westerly filmmaking — Yimou joined the undertaking , being developed by Universal , to try and bring an reliable Chinese approach to the movie and its setting . It ’s even got a cast that blends the likes of Damon , Willem Dafoe , and Pedro Pascal , with Chinese superstars like Andy Lau , Luhan , and Jing Tian .
And yes , it also has the absurdity of being a rarefied fantasy action movie set a thousand age in the past , with supernatural giant dishonor the Great Wall of China . It rather sounds like the Helm ’s Deep episode from The Two Towers , but amped up to 11 and turn into the most expensive blockbuster ever made in China .
We do n’t know much else about the pic — Yimou ’s audience with EW mainly talk over the challenge of a Chinese director making an English - terminology Hollywood blockbuster — but it for sure feels like it not only came out of nowhere for a film out so shortly , but also like it could be a wild ride . Definitely one to keep an eye out on . Head on over to the connectedness below to see a few more pictures .
[ Entertainment Weekly ]
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